Photos: My night at the Aurora Fox’s ‘Consider the Oyster’

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Actor and ultra-runner Ben Dicke explains the new tattoo on his foot: The bison is the symbol of the Heartland 100 running ace. The two mountains behind him are represent Leadville, where he ran another 100-mile race last summer. Those images are on the belt buckles you earn when you cross the finish line.

 

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Director Bev Newcomb-Madden is greeted by old friend John Ashton, who is producing (and appearing in) “The Seafarer” in the Aurora Fox’s next-door studio theater while Newcomb-Madden’s “Consider the Oyster” performs on the mainstage. Below, Madden is presented an opening-night gift from her cast that will make all the sense in the world after you see the show.

 

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Greeting cards, Scotch — and treats for the afterparty (below) — take their opening-night backstage places.

 

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Award-winning arts journalist John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the United States by American Theatre Magazine during has 12 years at The Denver Post. Hen then created a groundbreaking new media outlet covering Colorado arts an culture as an in-house, multimedia journalist for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He also founded The Denver Actors Fund, a nonprofit that has raised more than $600,000 for theatre artists in medical need. He is now a journalist for hire as the founder of Moore Media Colorado. You can find samples of his work at MooreJohn.Com. Contact him at culturewestjohn@gmail.com